Ipad Air OS 18.4.1 issue

Issues
#1

I’ve been using an ipad air 4th generation with a slightly modified Kodi plugin for the last few years.

It controls various functions on a windows PC including Kodi. All the functions are still working except the Kodi actions which result in a “result is undefined” message on the ipad.

From the Kodi remote designer on a windows 10 system everything still works perfectly. But on the Ipad Air the Kodi functions don’t work. I’ve deleted and redownloaded the IOS Home remote app amd reloaded the HRP. Restarted Ipad. The problem didn’t seem to start with any ipad updates.

As everything works perfectly from the Kodi remote designer I’m at a bit of a loss what is causing this issue.

#2

The bug is related to iOS 18. On iOS 17 or earlier, everything works fine, as it does on Android and Windows.

Somehow, the parsing of the JSON result no longer works. For example, a GET request like this:

playerdetails = http.get('http://' + (plugin.Settings["Host"]) + ':' + (plugin.Settings["Webserver"]) + '/jsonrpc?request={"jsonrpc": "2.0","id": 1, "method": "Player.GetProperties", "params":{"properties": ["time", "percentage", "totaltime", "speed"], "playerid":' + activePlayer + '}}', {timeout: 100});

The following no longer works:

playerdetails.data.result.speed

I reported the issue to the developer, and although there was an update three months ago for the iOS client, I don’t know if it will get fixed. Lately, there has been little to no development for The Home Remote.

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#3

I thought I was going crazy! All of my Kodi advance functions were not working and I could not figure out what I had done to break them.

So this is an iOS issue with the main iOS THR app and not the Kodi plug in right?

I may have to go back to an older version of my remote that did not use any of the advance features. I only used the plugin (JSON features) for my advanced GUI portions. I really hope we can get a fix since my advanced features were the real WAF in my remote.

#4

I may have to get an Android tablet for the time being.

#5

Yes getting an Android tablet seems the only solution to get it going again for the moment.

#6

Yes, that is correct, but only on iOS 18.

I don’t know if it helps, but maybe you could report the issue here too: Support | The Home Remote

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#7

Yes I did also report it to support a couple of days ago. I haven’t had a reply.

#8

Report also sent.

I need to update my current remote to function with Android while we wait.

#9

@Brian_Laroche is the only person who might have contact with the developer. I have made him aware of this post. Will let you know if I hear back.

#10

Just to add: a new version of the iOS app was released three months ago, so there is still some development activity.